just came in this thread to remind marxist-leninist retardist third worldists that Washington D.C. isn't the only Empire.
to be clear, my point is that you can't use the US as the sole anecdote as a first world neoliberal post-scarcity empire, since there are a handful of others who haven't bothered to crack down on workers so effectively.
Does anybody think that third worldism is pointless?
Matthew Jenkins
Wyatt Gomez
History shows that isn't true. America can't sustain foreign wars indefinitely. Even now, they're looking to settle with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan, one of the most technologically backwards regions on earth.
James Kelly
The US controls the reserve currency world and is an economic hyperpower. It has the most resources to supress 3rd world revolutions. Almost all neoliberal coups were instigated by the US. One of the only exceptions is Sankara. In a multipolar world of neoliberal superpowers, each power wouldnt have the economic resources to spend on spreading neoliberalism. In effect neoliberalism has to have a center. Its the alliance of all the world's capitalist powers allied to stop 3rd world revolutions.
Angel Price
this. MTW are anarkiddie-tier: utopian at best
Brandon Phillips
They're easily proven wrong by pointing out the many successful Communist revolutions in the first world.
Mason Bell
That's why the first world has used its super profits to invest in heavily militarized police forces and helped to normalize their presence in civil society. So even if first worlders did not have a strong reactionary tendency they would still have an incredibly difficult time actually overthrowing the state. If anyone is idealist here it is you.
Jaxson Perez
War is a people thing, no matter how well equipped a police force is, if the people hate them revolutionaries will swim amongst the people like fish in water. Maoists in India, despite being mostly equipped with bows and break action shotguns have been successful at killing the police without being squashed.
Angel Bell
Jason doesn't understand Marxism. He uses ghostwriters.
Joshua Cook
You see, there is no Working Class in the 1st World. There only exists a Working Class in the Third World. The Third World must unite under a Strong Leader and Crush the 1st World. There doesn't exist any common Class Struggle, and history is only shaped through Blood. It is the Natural Course.
Jordan Gray
WTF JANITORS I WAS JOKING